Ali Sayigh
Dr. Ali Sayigh is the Chairman and Founder of the World Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society; and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh actively consults on renewable and sustainable energy issues for many international organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, and UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy, from 1977...See more
Dr. Ali Sayigh is the Chairman and Founder of the World Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society; and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh actively consults on renewable and sustainable energy issues for many international organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, and UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy, from 1977-1995; Professor of Solar Energy at King Saud, Kuwait, and Reading Universities from 1969 to 1994; and Professor of Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994 to 2004. He was the founding expert in Renewable Energy at AOPEC. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Energy, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Chartered Engineer. Dr. Sayigh has published more than 400 papers and has contributedto and edited more than 30 books. He has been Editor and Editor-in-Chief of several international journals, including Renewable Energy and the International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology , and Editor-in-Chief of the reference work Comprehensive Renewable Energy . See less
